| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第1-13页 |
| ·Scope and Purpose | 第9-12页 |
| ·Methodology | 第12-13页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第13-20页 |
| ·On Republicanism | 第13-17页 |
| ·Honohan’s Definition and Basic Elements of Republicanism | 第13-15页 |
| ·On the Intellectual Source and Context of Jefferson’s Conception of Republicanism | 第15-17页 |
| ·On Jefferson’s Conception of the Ward System | 第17-20页 |
| Chapter 3 The Theoretical Basis of the Ward System: Thomas Jefferson’s Conception of Republicanism | 第20-41页 |
| ·Virtue: the Universality of the Moral Sense | 第20-25页 |
| ·Freedom: the Synthesis of Negative and Positive Liberties | 第25-29页 |
| ·Jefferson’s Criterion of the Republican Government and the Scope of the Republic | 第29-37页 |
| ·Jefferson’s Synthesis of Participation and Representation | 第29-33页 |
| ·Jefferson’s Synthesis of Participation and Representation in Retrospect: the Absence and Emergence of a Grass-roots Institution | 第33-37页 |
| ·Shaping of Citizens | 第37-38页 |
| ·Material Preconditions | 第38-41页 |
| Chapter 4 The Contents and Functions of the Ward System: the Institutional Preservation of Jeffersonian Republicanism | 第41-59页 |
| ·Universal Free Education for the Shaping of Republican Citizens | 第41-46页 |
| ·The Three-tiered System of Public Education | 第41-43页 |
| ·Universal Free Education and Jeffersonian Republicanism | 第43-46页 |
| ·The People’s Active Participation in Self-government within Each Ward | 第46-53页 |
| ·The Institutions of Virginian Counties: Deviation from the Republican Principles | 第46-49页 |
| ·From the County to the Ward: the New Republican Grass-roots Institution | 第49-53页 |
| ·From the Ward to the Extended Republic | 第53-59页 |
| ·The People’s Representatives: the Natural Aristocrats | 第53-57页 |
| ·The Four-tiered Structure of the Republican Government | 第57-59页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第59-63页 |
| Bibliography | 第63-65页 |
